DNA double-strand breaks in immunoglobulin genes undergoing somatic hypermutation

Immunity

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 589-597

  Bross, Linda ^a   Fukita, Yosho ^b   McBlane, Fraser ^a   Démollière, Corinne ^a   Rajewsky, Klaus ^b   Jacobs, Heinz ^a  

^a BASEL INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE ISOLATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GERMINAL CENTER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

EID: 0033637358     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)00059-5     Document Type: Article

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